The collaboration expands the Swiss bank's alternatives offering for institutional investors across multiple asset classes, including select secondary and co-investment opportunities.
A key architect of the firm's secondaries strategy and broader private markets business, Gruber will succeed Roberto Paganoni in January 2027.
The strategy, anchored by a Korean institutional investor, has adopted an evergreen semi-liquid structure aimed at capturing emerging credit secondary opportunities throughout the cycle.
Insurance investors now account for nearly 25% of the manager's commitments, with parent company EQT eyeing opportunities to combine primary and secondary strategies.
The 15-asset vehicle, among the largest GP-led infrastructure deals to date, drew more than $7 billion of demand and included around $2.5 billion of new capital.
The transaction creates a $2.6 trillion manager spanning public and private markets, including secondaries and semi-liquid investment platforms.
The private equity veteran developed the firm's secondaries strategy, leading three transactions across tail-end portfolios, early secondary deals, and a CV.
Australian Retirement Trust and Mercer Super are reportedly joining the British resort operator's cap table.
The Swiss firm's flagship semi-liquid strategy tracks the Morningstar PitchBook Unicorn 20 Index primarily through secondaries.
Engler brings over two decades of technology experience and will lead operations and build the infrastructure behind each deal.
